PSOD: ESXi 6.0 U2 on PowerEdge M710HD with Brocade BR-1741M-k
Brian FarrugiaThis post is a walk through on how to resolve an issue were a Brocade 1020/1741M card would cause a PSOD when installing VMware ESXi if the firmware is outdated.…
Using Powershell to validate recommended Updates and Hotfixes for Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Windows 2012 R2
My experience with Hyper-V Failover Clusters has showed me that it is best to install all updates and hotfixes on member hosts to try avoid any major issues. This page…
Windows Update Error 800B0001
Today I went to install some updates on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server via Windows Update. When checking for updates the operation failed with error 800B0001 as seen in…
ESXi host shutdown with APC UPS connected via USB
We had a situation were a customer has a single VMware ESXi 5.5 host connected to an APC UPS and he required that the VMs and host shut down cleanly…
Deploying a CentOS7 VM with MariaDB for Remote Desktop Manager
At my workplace we use the Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager (RDM) application. The application allows you to build a database with the IT resources you manage. If you haven't tried…
Restore a deleted mailbox in Exchange 2013
Recently we had a client that deleted an exchange mailbox by mistake. He quickly recreated it for the user to be able to receive and send e-mails but in the…
Manual LUN failover with VMware and Powervault MD3620f
A customer has two DELL Powervault MD3620f SAN arrays which included the Remote Replication feature. The Virtual Disks (VDs) hosting the VMware Datastores are replicated across the two SANs, in…
Active/Active Load Balancing with Mikrotik RouterOS
If you have multiple internet connections or site to site tunnels, like VPN or IPIP, with multiple links, you may want to load balance between the links. With Mikrotik this…
Veeam Hyper-V Replication Error: Failed to find actual VM settings
I have a customer that is replicating his Virtual Machines from a Hyper-V standalone host in the primary site to another host in his DR site. The hosts are installed…
VSS Writers and related services
I have been meaning to keep a record of the VSS writers and associated services to restart. I wrote this post mainly for personal reference.